Ergonomics puts people at the heart of design to optimise comfort, functionality, and user-friendliness. It encourages product developers and manufacturers to take into account how users interact with products, focusing on the strengths, and abilities of people rather than setting a fixed design and forcing users to adapt. These parameters cover a wide range of factors, including age, size, strength, cognitive function, and most importantly in the case of technology-based products, prior experience.

Applying good ergonomic practice to products such as fire control panels, strips out complexity from the user experience, making the systems easier, safer, and more efficient to use. Combining an ergonomic user interface with an enhanced operating system and software capability makes this technology more accessible to a wider user base, which in turn meets the changing needs of system designers, integrators, and end users.